Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 318

The Political Matrix Sustains the Illusion of Freedom

“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.” — Neil Postman

What you smell is the stench of a dying republic.

Our dying republic.

We are trapped in a political matrix intended to sustain the illusio...

Removing the ‘Great’ From Britain

Last month, Britain made a dangerous swing to the left. Private education has been attacked, more public housing, the promotion of environmental Marxism, and much more. But that isn’t to say there wasn’t an unspoken gospel among the main parties concerning the deliberate impoverishment of the British Isles. Merely aesthetic differences separate them.

A distinguished associate of mine told me about his grievances, the attacks against people earning lower wages and the political weaponization used...

You Say You Want a Revolution

Owning nothing isn’t happiness. Owning control of one’s life and purpose is happiness.

In The Super-Wealthy Have a Problem, I discussed how systemic unfairness can reach a pressure point in which regime change is the only option left to reverse a system rigged to benefit the few at the expense of the many.

(My definition of the super-wealthy: entities and families that lobby the government for favors as a standard business practice.)

But political regime change doesn’t exhaust the possibilities ...

Global Impact of Shifting Demographics

International Man: Previously, you have said that “demographics have no more mercy than a glacier.”

What did you mean by that?

Doug Casey: There are eight billion humans on the planet. A mass that size amounts to a force of nature, and demographics actually have a life of their own. They’re like the ocean tides; very hard to resist. Like the tidal wave now washing over Europe and North America.

Genesis says, “Be fruitful and multiply.” Americans and Europeans, unlike populations in the relativel...

Stomach Acid Is Critical for Health

One of the more depressing parts of being an awake physician in the medical system is reading the drug lists of the patients you see and realizing how many prescriptions they are on that do not benefit them, and in many cases harm them. Presently, 66 percent of U.S. adults are estimated to have at least one prescription and on average, they have nine prescriptions filled per year (which can include renewals of an existing one).

Since doctors are extremely reluctant to terminate existing prescrip...

De Sade At Sde Teiman: When Genocide, Snuff Films, Extra-Judicial Assassinations & Rape Are De Facto Legal

The totem words and adjectives we use to describe Israel, a perverse and pornographically murderous society, fail. One day flows into the next, each indistinguishable in the level of sadistic torture and carnage dreamed up by the IDF Einsatzgruppen.

As televised vignettes at July’s end showed, the Israelis, a “bizarre specimen of moral laxity,” in the 1728 words of Southern gentleman William Byrd, had been openly rationalizing the need to codify in law the rape of Palestinian hostages.

From Knes...

People of the Lie

Evil is not committed by people who feel uncertain about their righteousness, who question their own motives, who worry about betraying themselves. The evil in this world is committed by the spiritual fat cats, by the Pharisees of our own day, the self-righteous who think they are without sin because they are unwilling to suffer the discomfort of significant self-examination. Unpleasant though it may be, the sense of personal sin is precisely that which keeps our sin from getting out of hand…It ...

Interview with Executive Global: ‘The Return of Marxism in the West’

Our special interview on Swiss Wealth Advisor with CLAUDIO GRASS, CEO and  Independent Precious Metals Consultant , explores the manner in which astute investors may preserve wealth against the backdrop of debilitating central economic planning and monetary inflation. 

Executive Global  sit down to discuss macroeconomic trends, precious metals, monetary policy and philosophy with the advisor to affluent institutional and private clients.

Executive Global: (EG)

We saw a heavy-handed totalitarian res...

Cardinal Cupich Silent on Abortions Happening at DNC as He Leads Prayer for ‘Unity and Peace’

CHICAGO  — Cardinal Blase Cupich remained notably silent on Catholic teaching on life issues and abortion during his invocation at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, at which Planned Parenthood is offering free abortions and vasectomies.

Cupich’s prayer invocation was delivered to the assembled participants at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on August 19, in which he notably avoided mentioning Jesus Christ – a stark contrast to the invocation given by Archbishop Jerome Listecki at...

The Nazified EU and Democrat Party

A question of our time is why do Europeans put up with the tyrannical EU scum?

As I previously reported, the EU has told Elon Musk that they, not he, control the content of his interview on X with Donald Trump. The EU is an unelected governing body. Yet it claims to be democratic. It claims to be defending democracy in Ukraine currently being governed, if it can be called that, by an unelected president. The EU claims to be protecting European democracy from Russia, but there are no democratic g...